Hanger



June '22, 1937. TUPPAN 2,084,565

HANGER Filed May 22,, 1936 l/vvr/vron,

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Patented June 22, 1937 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 4 Claims.

This invention relates to devices used for supporting clothes when stored away in a wardrobe or other place.

One of the objects of this invention is to provide a hanger for clothes designed to support clothes. in a secure manner.

Another object is to provide a hanger especially suitable for trousers.

Another object is to provide a hanger so dei signed asv to make it adjustable to various width of trousers.

Another object is to provide a hanger so designed that it may readily be hooked to the different buttons or loops near the upper edge of trousers.

Other objects will appear from the following description and appended claims as well as from the accompanying drawing, in which- Fig. 1 is a fragmentary longitudinal mid-sectional view of the hanger according to this invention, approximately taken on line I| of Fig. 2.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of one of the adjustable attachment hooks shown in proper position in one end of the central housing member with the top half of the housing remove so as to allow a showing of the hook within the housing.

' A hanger of the type disclosed here may be SO used for supporting almost any type of garment but is particularly suited for supporting trousers or garments that have at their upper edge, or near the same, either, buttons for suspenders, or loops for belts.

Such garments can, as a rule, be folded so that loops or buttons become located opposite one another in the adjacently folded portions of the garment, as, for instance, the two rear buttons, or any of the front buttons; there being loops Aw rather close to such buttons quite customarily.

It is also quite common that such buttons or loops are at about the points where trousers are folded or creased, so that, if the trousers are suspended from or at such points, trousers will 5 naturally regain their good appearance after having been worn, or retain such good appearance of well-pressed garments while being stored away when not used.

I am aware that garment hangers are known by which a garment can be stored in a suspended condition, but trouser-hangers are commonly arranged to support the garment at the bottom end or at the middle, which leave marks at places that are seen when the garment is being worn;

while here, in the present case, the hanger is meant to be applied at points that are commonly not so visible to the eye when the garment is on the wearer, and, even if visible, any mark left or made by the hanger is not so conspicuous near the upper edge as it would be near the bottorn by reason of the fact that the bottom as a rule hangs freely and is thereby subject to any showing of severe impressions while the more close adaptation of the upper portions of a garment to the form of the body of the wearer will tend to make any mark disappear, or appear less obvious.

As illustrated, the attachment members 3 extend adjustably from the opposite ends of the housing member 4.

Each attachment memberis in form of a fork of which the joining and closed end 5 is shiftably locked between the two halves 4a and 4b of the housing 4, while the outwardly protruding ends 6 and I serve as the means by which buttons or loops can be removably secured to the hanger, the ends being made in form of hooks as plainly illustrated in Fig. 1.

The innermost closed end 5 of each attachment member is designed to reduce the frictional contact within the housing, the innermost tip 8 being bent upwardly followed by a short bend downwardly as indicated at 9 whereby the attachment members friction within the housing at only points instead of the comparatively long bodies of the attachment members, the housing being proportioned so that the larger portions of the long bodies of the attachment members are spaced from the inside walls of the housing, there being mere apertures I0 in the ends of the housing forming further contacting and supporting means for the attachment members in the housing, facilitating an easy shifting and adjustment of the attachment members to required different length with respect to the oppositely disposed hooks 61.

The housing is provided with suitable depressions, by which the two halves of the housing are connected by any means such as rivets, bolts, or even spot-welding, such depressions serving at the same time also as stops for the longitudinal adjustment movements of the attachment members. 1

The central depressions are used for attaching the main supporting hook l3 of the hanger.

The end of each the attachment hooks is preferably well rounded or looped asindicated at M in order to avoid a. tearing or damaging of clothes.

The frictional contacts at 8, 9 and 10 are easily provided in such a condition as to suitably maintain the attachment members 3 in any desired adjusted position with respect to the central housing member 4, so that a supported garment may be maintained in a suitably stretched condition, one hook, for instance 6, engaged to one of the rear buttons of trousers, while the hook I is engaged over or to the other rear button, and the oppositely disposed two hooks, protruding from the opposite end of the housing, engaged to buttons at the'front of the trousers, so that the upper edge of the trousers may be held stretched between points near the rear foldings or creases of the trousers, with the trousers suspended thereby from such a hanger.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1. In a hanger, a central housing member made in halves recessed in the adjoining faces, and attachment members of substantially U-form adjustably disposed between the halves and with the free ends of the U-shaped members protruding from the ends of the housing members in form of hooks designed to engage with buttons or the like of garments whereby the garment may be suspended in a stretched condition.

2. In a hanger, a central housing member made in halves recessed in the adjoining faces and securely united, and attachment members each with one end adjustably disposed between the halves and with the opposite end protruding from the ends of the housing member in form of hooks designed to engage with buttons or the like of garments whereby the garments may be suspended, the inner portions of the attachment members having bends in form of spring-like frictionmeans.

3. In a hanger, a central housing member having guiding means, and attachment members made of U-form with the connected base of the U forming the stop for longitudinal movements disposed in the housing longitudinally shiftable and with the free ends of the U protruding from the opposite ends of the housing in form of pairs of open hooks and spaced engaging ends designed so that a garment may be attached thereto and suspended therefrom.

4. In a hanger, a central housing member made in halves in form of stamped sheet material recessed in the adjoining faces with edge portions of the oppositely disposed halves abutting one another and with depressions forming contacting portions designed so that the halves can be united thereby, and attachment members adjustably disposed in the housing with ends in form of engaging means protruding from the housing, theattachment members being shiftable longitudinally whereby the hanger may be adjusted to different length, the depressions serving as stops for the longitudinal movements of the attachment members.

PETER TUPPAN. 

